1. Organizational strategy and change
Partnering to Enable Evidence-Based Practices in Policing
31 May 2018

2. Introduction Who am I? The Scottish Approach?
The Future of Leadership Development?

3. Who am I? Centre for Applied Social Sciences MPA Director
PhD and DPA Supervisor
Chair UK Learned Society for Public Administration
Public Policy and Administration
Teaching Public Administration

4. The ‘Scottish Approach’
SNP Administration 2007
Christie Commission 2011
Three principles:
An assets-based approach;
Co-production of services and
An improvement philosophy
(Elliott Pending 1)

5. The ‘Scottish Approach’
National Performance Framework
Strategic Purpose, 5 Strategic Objectives and 16 National Outcomes
Scottish Community Empowerment Action Plan 2009
Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2014
(Elliott Pending 1)

6. The ‘Scottish Approach’
But…
Adaptive / collective leadership
Politics?
(Elliott 2017)
Capacity?
(Elliott and Sinclair, 2018)
Development?
(Elliott, 2018)
Everyone is a leader

7. The ‘Scottish Approach’
Community Empowerment
Need:
Coordination
Support
Development
(ibid)
lack of trust,
lack of capacity,
lack of desire
(Elliott, Pending 2)

8. The ‘Scottish Approach’

9. Does local government share the same objectives as the Scottish Executive/Scottish Parliament (Councillors %)
Scottish Executive
Scottish Parliament
Agree
Disagree
Labour 44 38 47 36
Lib Dem 27 56 32 48
SNP 10 85 24 63
Conservative 5 82 18 72
Independent 58 33 50
All 29
(McAteer and Bennett, 2005: 291)

10. Central control has increased since devolution (Officers %)
Agree
Disagree
ALACHO (n=28)
78.6
7.1
SLAED (n=24)
69.6
21.7
ADES (n=52)
63.5
17.3
SOLACE (n=28)
57.1
Council Leaders (n=13)
85.0
8.0
Non-office-bearing councillors (n=57)
70.0
20.0
McAteer and Bennett (2005: 285)

11. The Future of Leadership Development?
Political will?
(Elliott 2018)
Working with communities?
Leadership at all levels?
Across organisational boundaries?

12. Conclusions How do we better support cross-organisational learning?
How do we foster better collaborative working through learning activities?
How to we build on international research and good practice (across public services)?
For more information, please contact Dr Elliott at

13. References
Elliott, I.C. (Pending1) “The Development and Outcomes of the ‘Scottish Approach’ as a Form of Strategic Government”. Public Money and Management. Elliott, I.C., Fejszes, V. and Tarrega, M. (Pending2) “The Community Empowerment Act and Localism under Devolution in Scotland: the perspective of multiple stakeholders in a council ward”. International Journal of Public Sector Management. Elliott, I.C “The role of Masters education in influencing organisational change”, EGPA 2018 Annual Conference, 5-7 September, Lausanne, Switzerland. Elliott, I.C. and Sinclair, C “Leadership of Health and Social Care Services - The Challenges of Leading Integrated Services”, EGPA 2018 Annual Conference, 5-7 September, Lausanne, Switzerland. Elliott, I.C. and Joyce, P “The limits of strategic leadership in a government context”. EGPA 2017 Annual Conference. 30 August-1 September, Milan, Italy. Elliott, I.C., Joyce, P. and Dawson, H “The development of strategic Government: The Scottish Approach”. EGPA 2016 Annual Conference, August, Utrecht, Netherlands. McAteer, M. and Bennett, M “Devolution and local government: Evidence from Scotland”, Local Government Studies; 31(3), p285-p306.